Car-brake



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No. 289,921. l Patented Dec. 11, 1883.

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HUGH MOCALIP AND MARSHALL M. NYE, OF CRA\VFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

CAR-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,921, dated December 11, 1883.

Application filed August 23, 1833. (No model.)

This invention relates to car-brakes, and 1o hasfor its object to provide means whereby when the brakes are set upon the tender or front car of a train the motion shall be immediately communicated to the brake meehanism of all the remaining cars throughout the I train. and the brakes be instantly and automatically set upon all the cars, and likewise whereby the brakes may be automatically released upon all the cars of the train by simply releasing the brakes upon the front car or zo tender.

With these ends in view our invention consists in the improved construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly' pointed out l in the claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a bottom view of the tender-truck and the truck of a car equipped with our improvement. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectiony Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken through the tender-truck on the line :n x in Fig. 1 Fig. 4 is an end view of one of the cars equipped with our improvement. Fig. 5 is a detail view of 3 5 part ofthe brake mechanism of one of the cars,

and Fig. 6 is a detail view illustrating a modiiication.

The same letters refer tothe same parts in all the figures.

Ain the drawings designates the truck of the tender, which is provided at its front end with guides BB, forming bearings fora transversely-sliding wedge-shaped block, G.

D is avertical shaft, mounted or journaled in suitable bearings at the side of the truck,

and having at its lower end a crank, E, connected by a pitman, F, with the small or narrow end of the wedge-shaped block. The npper end ofthe shaft D may be provided with 5o a hand-wheel, G, or any other suitable means may be employed for communicating motion to the said shaft D when required.

The holsters of the truck A are mortised, as at H, so as to admit a longitudinally-sliding rod, I, having at its frontend a block or shoe, J, which is held in contact with the wedge C by the action of a spring, K, connecting the rod I with one of the bolsters. The rear end of rod I extends under the draw-head or buffer L, and terminates about on a line with the latter, where it is provided with a vertical buffer-plate, M..

N designates the truck of an ordinary car, which is provided with bearings on its under side for a longitudinally-sliding rod, O, t0 each end of which a pair of rods, P P, are connected by means of a plate, Q, as shown. The ends of the rods P l? project at the ends ofthe car-truck, where they terminate about on a line with the draw-heads, and are provided with buffer-plates It.

Iivoted to the under side of the truck N, about centrally under the same, are levers S S, the inner ends of which are drawn in opposite directions by suitably arranged coiled springs, T T. The inner ends of the said levers rest against projections U, extending upwardly from the rod O, as shown. The levers S are connected by pivoted rods V with the brake mechanism, which is denoted by the letter W. In the general construction of the brake mechanism no novelty is herein claimed.

The operation of this invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed. In order to set the brakes upon the train, it is only necessary to rotate the shaft D, thereby causing the wedge G to force the rod I in a rearward direction. This motion is communicated to the rod O of the next car, and thence to the brake mechanism.

Fig. 6 ofthe drawings illustrates a modification of our invention,which consists in substituting for the operating-wedge C a steamcylinder, X, which is direct-ly connected with the operating-rod. The operation of this modification is obvious.

NVe claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. The combination of the brake mechani ism, the rod 0, plates Q Q, rods l? l?, levers S S, springs T T, projections U, connectingrods V, and suitable operating mechanism, as set forth.

operating mechanism, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto afxed our signatures 15 2. The combination, with a train of oars, of in presence of two witnesses. the rods arranged to slide longitudinally under the oar-trucks, levers, and pivoted rods connecting the said sliding rods with the brake mechanism, bufenplates at the ends of said sliding rods, a transversely-sliding Wedge arranged to operate one of the sliding rods, and

HUGH MCOALIP. MARSHALL M. NYE.

Witnesses:

ELI COMPTON, Gno. R. BROWN. 

